A champion for the common man, Detective Inspector Jack Frost prefers solving crime to the monotony of police paperwork. Perceptive yet sloppy, disorganized, and cantankerous, he often clashes with his social-climbing commander, Superintendent Norman ("horn-rimmed Harry") Mullett. In "Penny for the Guy," two boys are kidnapped, one is found murdered, and time is running out for ransoming the other. In "Appendix Man," Frost resigns from the force after losing his partner but returns to solve the suspicious death of a reclusive art collector. And in "One Man's Meat" he takes in a renter to help with the bills while investigating the death of a homeless teenager.

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